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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: Pascal Coin: P2P cryptocurrency without need of historical operations
by
Bizfagioli
on 16/10/2016, 15:06:57 UTC
Do we know If we are able mining through the wallet with XEON Phi co-processor

You can mine with any CPU but it's not worth it now because of GPU mining.

 The XEON Phi is 72 core processor but they would not show up beside your CPU for the Pascalcoin wallet.  While it would be amazing to see how fast it could hash blocks, I don't think it is compatible with the software.


these 72 core cpu's are like gpu's in design, utilizing pci express slots...maybe when time comes CPU mining won't die/phased out easily and we will have nvidia, amd, and cpu miners competing for hash... one problem, it seems pretty expensive, don't know price per hash ratio of these CPU cards though.
They used to go really cheap on Amazon but they ran out of stock and the price went back up.
These are not like GPU's, it's a 72 core/288 thread (best model) arrangement of Airmont processors.
And to use it for pascal mining it must be compiled for it specifically.
Good thing is it has AES-NI and runs x86 code so porting is not hard.
But it is not worth mining with them, 288 threads*300kh/s = 86.4MH/s, not much compared to GPU's.
That's not even factoring in the cost, these things are expensive!